The Schlumberger Foundation is accepting new applications
for the 2020–2021 Faculty for the Future Fellowships
from September 5th to November 7th, 2019
Click here for additional information
In November 2019, an all-day Global Education Conference to convene embassy representatives, the private sector, universities, think tanks, U.S. government, international multi-lateral organizations and other educational institutions to discuss the latest developments in education and, specifically, the issues that are critical to foreign students coming to the United States and their foreign governments, which have a vested interest in finding top educational opportunities for their nationals, will take place in Washington DC. Among the myriad of topics we will examine are future education trends, including the skills needed to adapt to a 21st-century world, as well as other pertinent political developments affecting the field.
The next session of the Harvard Kennedy School executive program Cybersecurity: The Intersection of Policy and Technology will take place from January 12-17, 2020.
Our world is a place where cyberattacks can happen instantaneously. That’s why the security and resilience of critical infrastructure requires constant vigilance against cyber threats.
Led by Faculty Chair James Waldo, this one-week program focuses on the intersection of policy and technology, as well as how, together, they can address the critical threats of a cyber world. The objective is to provide technologists and policymakers with a conceptual framework for the design of both cybersecurity policy and technology.
In her new book Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For, Susan E. Rice—National Security Advisor to President Barack Obama and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations—reveals her surprising story with unflinching candor as she recalls pivotal moments from her dynamic career on the front lines of American diplomacy and foreign policy.
Mother, wife, scholar, diplomat, and fierce champion of American interests and values, Rice powerfully connects the personal and the professional. Taught early, with tough love, how to compete and excel as an African American woman in settings where people of color are few, Rice shares the wisdom she learned along the way.
Laying bare the family struggles that shaped her early life in Washington, DC, she also examines the ancestral legacies that influenced her. Rice’s elders—immigrants on one side and descendants of slaves on the other—had high expectations that each generation would rise. And rise they did, but not without paying it forward—in uniform and in the pulpit, as educators, community leaders, and public servants.
Rice, who served throughout the Clinton administration, became one of the nation’s youngest assistant secretaries of state and, later, one of President Obama’s most trusted advisors.
She provides an insider’s account of some of the most complex issues confronting the United States over three decades, ranging from “Black Hawk Down” in Somalia to the genocide in Rwanda and the East Africa embassy bombings in the late 1990s, and from conflicts in Libya and Syria to the Ebola epidemic, a secret channel to Iran, and the opening to Cuba during the Obama years. She reveals previously untold stories behind recent national security challenges, including confrontations with Russia and China, the war against ISIS, the struggle to contain the fallout from Edward Snowden’s NSA leaks, the U.S. response to Russian interference in the 2016 election, and the transition to the Trump administration.
REVIEWS
Catholic Relief Services’ (CRS) International Development Fellows Program is a 12-month professional development opportunity, designed for individuals dedicated to a career in international relief and development.
CRS is one of the largest and most trusted international relief and development organizations. In more than 100 countries worldwide, CRS promotes transformative and sustainable change by using holistic approaches, engaging people at all levels, and tailoring our work to the needs of the people we serve.
The Mandela Washington Fellowship will bring up to 700 young leaders to the United States in the summer of 2020 for a comprehensive executive-style program that is designed to build skills and empower Fellows to lead in their respective sectors and communities. The application is now open and will close on October 9, 2019.
Suite à une grande restructuration, la Société Financière Internationale (SFI) du groupe de la Banque Mondiale recrute! Cliquez ici pour en savoir plus
Countries and Eligibility
Background on the Early Years Fellowship and Program Design
The Early Learning Partnership (ELP) launched the Early Years Fellowship in 2017 to support governments and World Bank teams to scale up investments in the early years with the following objectives:
The Obama Foundation Scholars Program at Columbia University seeks rising leaders from around the world who meet the following criteria:
A complete application, submitted entirely online, includes the following materials:
Access the online application form.
The résumé/curriculum vitae should be a chronological listing of employment and educational history, academic endeavors and other significant activities. Applicants should include any awards, publications or other achievements they have received.